It may seem obvious, but isn't the eloquence of human thought a product not of conversation, but of the printed word? In discussing literacy, I suppose I simply want to acknowledge that a mind will be able to express itself in subtlety only if its owner learns subtlety of expression, and that quality can most effectively be learned by reading it on the page.
<>It's that old thing: I write to know what I think (who's responsible for that nugget?). Reading is how we learn to express the depth and sha</>
Published on June 04, 2009 06:40